Grab-bucket.



c. e. LARSON.

GRAB BUCKET. APPLICATION HLED JAN. 15, 1914.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

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entrain si'rarns earner anion CHARLES G. LARSON, OF BURLINGTON, IGWA,ASSIGNOB, 11F TW'O-FIFTHS T0 WM. T. LOVE, TRUSTEE, 0F LOIVIAX, ILLINOIS.

GRAB-BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2%, 1915.

Application filed January 15, 1914. Serial No. 812,241.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, the undersigned, CHARLES G. Lnnson, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines andState of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGrab-Buckets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to grab buckets and one of the principal objectsthereof is to provide a bucket for transferring water, cement or othermaterials.

A further object of my invention is to provide a grab bucket which willbe simple, durable, efficient in operation and inexpensive tomanufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter morefully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which like reference characters indicate like partsthroughout, and in which,

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of the bucket looking from theside, and Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the bucket in an openposition and looking from the to The body of the bucket comprises a pairof members 5 identical in construction, and each providing a bottom 6which is rectangular in shape and is formed at its opposite sides withupturned sides 7, said sides being in the form of an isosceles triangle.The sides and bottom of each portion of the bucket are preferably formedof a single Secured in any desired manner to the bottom of the portion 6and centrally thereof, is the triangular shaped supporting member 8which projects at right angles to the bottom 6 and has its lower edge 9lying in the same horizontal plane with the lower edge 10 of the bottom.

Near the inner contacting edges of each of the sides 7 is secured, bymeans of rivets 11, the lower ends of the arcuate bails, each of saidbails being formed of a single strip of resilient material, bent to therequired shape. The bail 12 is somewhat longer than the bail 13 and hasits ends secured to one of the bucket members, while the bail 13 has itssecured to the opposite bucket member. The

central portions of the ends of the bails are oppositely bent as at 14.and crossed so as to offset the upper portions of the bails from thelower portions and to provide a space as at 15, between the upperportions of the bails. The bail 12 lies inside ofthe bail 13 at itscentral portion, and is pivoted to the bail 13 at 16. The bails are bentso as to be less in width at upper than at their lower ends, and theupper portion of the bail 13 is bent somewhat more than the bail 12 sothat when the bucket is in closed position, as shown in Fig. 1, the topof the bail 13 will lie somewhat within the top of the bail 12. A keeper17 is pivoted to the bail 12 above the pivot 16 and is in the form of astrip of metal having its free end bent inwardly as at 18, to engage thebail 13 when the bucket is in closed position, the pivot point fallingopposite the point where a bend is made in the bail 13 so tl at when thebails are brought closely together, the keeper 17 may be swung upwardlyto disengage the handle 13, the bend being great enough to allow thebent portion 18 of the keeper to clear the bail 13.

When the bucket is in closed position, as shown in Fig. 1, the loweredges 9 of the supporting members 8 cooperate with the lower edges ofthe bottom 6 of the bucket members for maintaining the bucket in anupright position, when the same is set down. In using the bucket, thebails are grasped by the operator and the bucket members separated as inFig. 2, and immersed into mortar, grain or other material to be carriedand are then brought together whereupon the keeper 17 may be droppeddown to engage the bail 13 for retaining the bucket in closed position.In emptying the bucket, the bottom thereof may be grasped and the buckettilted so as to allow the contents to be poured out, or the keeper maybe disengaged and the bucket opened so as to allow the contents toescape downwardly from the bucket. When the bucket is in closedposition, it will be noticed that the bottoms 6 are in an inclinedposition and are substantially at right angles to each other, and thatthe inner edges of the sides 7 of the bucket members'meet as do also thebottom edges of the bottoms 6, so that no opening is left for thematerial to escape. By reason of the resiliency of the bails the bucketmembers are maintained in tightly closed position, while the keeper 17is engaged with the bail 13, and the resiliency of the bails also allowsthe same being brought closely together for disengaging the keeper.

It will also be apparent that by reason of the bail 13 being somewhatshorter than the bail 12 and falling within the same when the bucket isclosed, a more comfortable grip may be maintained than would be the casewere the upper edges of the bails in the same horizontal plane.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment-of my invention, Ireserve and may exercise the rightv to make such changes in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts as do not depart fromthe spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A bucket comprisingtwo complementary members, each having parallel, triangular end wallsand upwardly and outwardly extending bottoms, the inner and upper sidesof each of said members being open, whereby when said members arebrought together they will form a wedge-shaped bucket, the edge thereofextending downwardly; a triangular supporting member carried by each ofsaid complementary members, on the under side adjacent the lower edgethereof designed to support said bucket in an upright position, and anarouate controlling bail for each of said com; plementary membersrigidly secured adjacent the meeting side edges thereoffand crossed oneover the other and pivotally connected to each other where they cross atapoint above the top edges of the complementary members. V a

2. A bucket, comprising two members of identical construction, each ofsaid'members comprising a bottomand triangular side members havingcontacting edges; a triangular supporting member attached to the undersurface of the bottom of each of said members adjacent the lower edgeofthe said bottom at right angles to said edge and also to said bottom,and half way between the extremities of said edges; an arcuatebailsecured to each of said bucket members along the contacting edges of thetriangular side members, said bails being pivoted to each other abovesaid bucket members and crossed at the pivoting point, whereby thebottom portions of the bucket may be made to recede from and approacheach other in V unison with the movements of the said bails.

CHARLES G. LARSON.

Witnesses:

C. L. FINK, GEORGE T. CAPPEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, 7

Washington, 11:0.

